Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
TONI MORRISONIf you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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